AROUND THE WORLD.

State Department laments repression

WASHINGTON — Thousands of people across the world suffered last year at the hands of repressive governments, some of them friendly to the United States, the State Department said Monday.

From China, where a wave of detentions targeted writers and political commentators, to Iran with executions, to Burma with a ruling junta not bound by any constitutional provisions, man's inhumanity was a recurrent concern.